Sentence examples for a traditional idea from inspiring English sources

Without saying so, he seemed to be casting off a traditional idea of the pope as a solitary, infallible absolute monarch.

Some folks have a traditional idea of food banks as just distributing food, but what we want to do is use and leverage every program that exists that can help us end hunger.

Liberal meliorists like to think that human life contains many things that are bad, some of which may never be entirely eliminated; but there is nothing that is intrinsically destructive or malevolent in human beings themselves – nothing, in other words, that corresponds to a traditional idea of evil.

"It's a traditional idea of female glamour and it's kind of boring," says Cox. "It's the whole pole-dancer look: huge heads of artificial hair, faces that look as if they've been dipped in a bucket of make-up, ultra short skirts and huge stripper heels.

Opportunity need not always be a break-through; it can sometimes be a traditional idea with a new approach or a mix of existing ideas.

Meghan Deans of Tor.com felt that, while the episode did unfortunately reduce Scully down to a traditional idea of feminine identity for part of its run, it was "one of the most emotional Scully-centric episodes the show has ever given us".

Instead, the church is undergoing nothing less than an epochal shift: It pits those who hold fast to a more traditional idea of protecting bishops and priests above all against those who call for more openness and accountability.

The post-iconic skyscraper the skyscraper that isn't so much a thing as a collection of things isn't easy to love, but it does evoke a curiously traditional idea, one worth holding on to, which is that the concept of the city is more important than an individual building.

The post-iconic skyscraper — the skyscraper that isn't so much a thing as a collection of things — isn't easy to love, but it does evoke a curiously traditional idea, one worth holding on to, which is that the concept of the city is more important than an individual building.

The reason, I believe, has partly to do with society's embrace of lesbian and gay people, but even more so with the understanding that same-sex marriage is actually a pretty traditional idea.

Yet he and Eleanor shared a surprisingly quite traditional idea of the wife's role in a marriage.